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  • Chinese Diasporas

    A Social History of Global Migration

    Series series New Approaches to Asian History
    Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the present day. Steven B. Miles places Chinese migrants and their families at the center of his narrative through a series of engaging case studies taking readers from the heart of Ming China to the global property markets of the twenty-first century. The focus ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Spaces for Consumption

    by Steven Miles ...
    In Spaces for Consumption Steven Miles develops a penetrating critique of a key shift characterising the contemporary city. Theoretically informed, the other strength of the volume lies in the wealth of examples that are drawn upon to show how cities are becoming spaces for consumption, which has itself rapidly become a global phenomenon."- Ronan Paddison, University of Glasgow"This is a great ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Consumerism

    As a Way of Life

    by Steven Miles ...
    This book provides an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of consumerism. It then moves on to examine the experience of consumption in the areas of space and place, technology, fashion, `popular′ music and sport. Throughout, the author brings a critical perspective to bear upon the subject, thus providing a reliable and stimulating guide to a complex and many-sided field. ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Retail and the Artifice of Social Change

    by Steven Miles ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    In Retail and Social Change Steven Miles, presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of retail and how in both its material and virtual guises it has come to reframe our relationship with the social world. Retail has become increasingly influential in homogenising the urban experience. And yet in reacting to trends in virtual consumption retailers are also becoming more and more ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Communities of Youth

    Cultural Practice and Informal Learning

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002.Communities of Youth critically evaluates what it means to be a young person at the beginning of the twenty-first century and the problems, opportunities and dilemmas that emerge from the experience. The book is concerned with putting key conceptual debates to do with youth in a comparative cutting-edge empirical context. In particular, it endeavours to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Torture Doctors

    Human Rights Crimes and the Road to Justice

    Torture doctors invent and oversee techniques to inflict pain and suffering without leaving scars. Their knowledge of the body and its breaking points and their credible authority over death certificates and medical records make them powerful and elusive perpetrators of the crime of torture. In The Torture Doctors, Steven H. Miles fearlessly explores who these physicians are, what they do, how ... Read more

    $29.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Citadel of Fear (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Lost World Mystery

    The Citadel of Fear stands at a formative crossroads of early twentieth-century speculative fiction, blending lost-world adventure, occult horror, scientific romance, and proto–dark fantasy. Its narrative ranges from Mesoamerican mystery and uncanny transformation to psychological terror and cosmic menace, offering a striking example of pulp-era experimentation before genre boundaries had fully ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Any Money Monday (UK)

    British English Version

    Narrated by Steven Miles ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 56 min

    Find out everything you need to know about making more money, protecting your wealth and building a future of financial freedom!Money. That's what almost all of us chase. Whether we like it or not, it's why most of us set our alarm clocks, hopefully only Monday to Friday.What if I told you that the flow of money is infinite, and that only a few people turn the tap on and off as they please? Yes, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Once I Too Had Wings

    The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908–1918

    Series series Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
    Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture. She and her husband Frank lived on Walden’s Ridge in southeast Tennessee, where they struggled to raise a family in the difficult mountain environment. Between 1908 and 1918, Miles kept a series of journals in which she recorded in beautiful and haunting prose the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Changing Consumer

    Markets and Meanings

    The consumer ethic is ubiquitous. Everything we do, see, hear and even feel appears to be connected in some way to our experience as consumers. The increasingly high profile of debates over consumption, consumer culture, consumer behaviour and consumer rights reflects a world undergoing rapid change. The Changing Consumer charts the nature of that change, as well as discussing why consumption has ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture

    The question of consumption emerged as a major focus of research and scholarship in the 1990s but the breadth and diversity of consumer culture has not been fully enough explored. The meanings of consumption, particularly in relation to lifestyle and identity, are of great importance to academic areas including business studies, sociology, cultural and media studies, psychology, geography and ... Read more

    $118.99 USD

  • Culture-Led Urban Regeneration

    Series series Urban Studies Monographs
    The idea that culture can be employed as a driver for urban economic growth has become part of the new orthodoxy by which cities seek to enhance their competitive position. Such developments reflect not only the rise to prominence of the cultural sphere in the contemporary (urban) economy, but how the meaning of culture has been redefined to include new uses in order to meet social, economic and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD